Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:29 am Post subject: Large family of Thomsons found to be MacTavishes

A Recently found MacTavish - Thomson connection, and one that shows just how many Thomsons are really MacTavishes by blood. (This find has been shared with the family members.)

William McClure Thomson, D.D., son of Rev. John Thomson, a Presbyterian clergyman (Penn. and Ohio), was born in Springfield, Ohio, and died in Denver, Colorado, April 8, 1894, 89 years of age. He was wed to Eliza Nelson Hanna, of New York. William M. was was a Presbyterian clergyman and missionary. He was educated at Miami University, Ohio, and Princeton Theological Seminary, he was sent as a missionary to Syria and Palestine on two tours. A missionary to Syria for many years he wrote among other works, The Land and the Book. The Yale University Obituaries for 1928, note this family (which begins with William C. Thomson of Glasgow (ca 1700), descendants of MacTavish. William C. Thomsons descendants are a large and extensive family.